Buy this book on-line FORESTER**, C. S: : Hornblower & the CrisisLONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1967. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG++/VG++.No owner
inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Ivan Lapper illustrated upper wrap+spine/backstrip,author b/w portrait photographic rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.
Miniscule rubbing to three corners; minisculely bumped head+foot of spine/
backstrip with reciprocal creasing and miniscule rubbing.Top edge slightly aged/
darkened and possibly dust-soiled with some minimal foxing/spotting; fore-edges brighter and much cleaner,contents bright,
tight and near pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,crisp,clean,blue paper-covered bds with bright stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and bright, clean plain white eps.8vo,9-174pp [paginated] includes 9 chapters and 2 stories; Hornblower and the Widow McCool,
and The Last Encounter,plus [unpaginated) half-title+title pages,contents list/table
and last page of novel.
The farewell volume of Hornblower contains the uncompleted last Hornblower novel and two short stories hitherto unpublished in book form.The novel breaks off at a natural narrative climax and is as brilliantly executed as any of the Hornblower novels preceding it.The time is
six months before the Battle of Trafalgar,
and the story hinges on forged orders involving Hornblower in a lonely and most dangerous mission.The probable course of the book is clearly indicated.
In March 1964,as a postscript to his last
book published in his lifetime,C. S. Forester wrote: 'Hornblower is on the move again . . . .The future hangs in the balance; another novel is becoming a possibility . . . .Supposing (that old doubt - one of the few things that grow stronger with age) I live to complete it? Perhaps some time in October I shall recap
my pen and rise stiffly from my desk and come hesitatingly back to life.Until then
- perhaps - 'The last word I wrote at the end of the last chapter was "good-bye".'
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